Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme <= 2.5.4 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Insecure Direct Object Reference to Privilege Escalation via Account Takeover
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Unpatched
- Affected Plugin
- Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme
- Affected Version
<= 2.5.4- CVSS
- 8.8High
- Weakness type
- CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
- CVE
CVE-2025-7718
At a glance
CVE-2025-7718 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 2.5.4. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. No fixed release has been reported yet; treat installations running this software as exposed. Disclosed September 2025, reported by Alyudin Nafiie.
Vulnerability Overview
The Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.4. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user's identity prior to updating their details like email. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's email addresses, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Reaching this weakness in Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme <= 2.5.4 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.
Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. No fixed build of this plugin is recorded for Resideo Plugin for Resideo - Real Estate WordPress Theme yet, so installs running <= 2.5.4 stay exposed until the vendor ships one.
Remediation
No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement.
How does WordSec protect against this?
Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. No patched version is recorded yet, which is the case where a filtering layer matters most, because there is nothing to update to.
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